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fossick
verb- to search for gold in abandoned mines or mining refuse AUSTRALIA, 1852
From the British dialect of Cornwall. - Gold had got into Joe’s blood, mate. He fossicked around for ten years, but did no good. — Frank Hardy, The Yarns of Billy Borker, p. 145, 1965
- to rummage about in searching for something AUSTRALIA, 1855
- Davo looked up from his rolling every now and then to see more than the usual number of customers fossicking through the cabinets[.] —
- — Robert G. Barrett, Davo’s Little Something, p. 102, 1992
- to poke about a place AUSTRALIA, 1941
- She enjoys fishing, travelling over the old tracks and fossicking across the outback. — Herb Wharton, Cattle Camp, p. 147, 1994
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